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Palestinian Writer: Syrian Detention Facilities Are "Human Slaughterhouses"

(AP-Washington Post) Salameh Kaileh, 56, a prominent Palestinian writer who was jailed in Syria on April 24 for nearly three weeks, described the detention facilities as "human slaughterhouses," saying security agents beat detainees with batons, crammed them into stinking cells and tied them to beds at night. "It was hell on earth," Kaileh said Sunday after being released and deported to Jordan. He had bluish-red bruises on his legs, which he said were the result of beatings with wooden batons that were studded with pins and nails. "I felt I was going to die under the brutal, savage and continuous beating of the interrogators, who tied me to ropes hung from the ceiling," said Kaileh.
2012-05-22 00:00:00
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